Demon Foundations

Week 6: On RC, They’re Must Be Trues

• Engaged Reading
• From What to Why

Reading Comprehension

Test 140, Passage 3 — Exceptional performers

Test 141, Passage 2 — Cameron’s pictures

Highlights

In this installment of Demon Foundations, Kaley covered why all Reading Comprehension LSAT questions are really just Must Be Trues. Having this mentality helps us place all of our efforts on understanding the passage completely--no more skipping over sentences we don’t understand! Kaley demonstrated key RC tactics such as pausing to summarize, looking for the author’s attitude toward the subject, and determining definitions of unknown words through context clues. By using these foundational skills, students were able to make loose predictions for every question and discern correct answer choices by asking themselves, “But did the passage say this?”